جست‌وجوی استاد و پژوهشگر

Andrew Riceمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Programming Languages
• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Andrew Rice is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cambridge's Department of Computer Science and Technology, and holds the Hassabis Fellowship in Computer Science. He is also the Director of Studies in Computer Science at Queens' College. His research focuses on programming languages, software engineering, and machine learning applications in software development. He leads projects like Isaac Computer Science and ALTA (Automated Language Teaching and Assessment), advancing adaptive learning technologies. His work includes static analysis tools such as Error Prone at Google, energy efficiency studies in computing infrastructure, and contributions to the Computing for the Future of the Planet initiative. His teaching emphasizes practical skill development through flipped classrooms and video lectures, earning him the 2014 Pilkington Prize for teaching excellence. He has held visiting roles at Google and collaborated on energy consumption research for mobile devices and data centers. His research spans systems, networking, and natural language processing, with a strong focus on applying computational methods to real-world challenges. Key Projects: Isaac Physics/Computer Science, ALTA, Error Prone Static Analysis Research Themes: Programming Languages, Machine Learning, Energy Efficiency Awards: Pilkington Prize (2014)

Andrew Mondscheinمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Transportation Planning
• Urban Accessibility
• Travel Behavior
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Andrew Mondschein is Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at University of Virginia School of Architecture, serving as Associate Dean of Research. His work focuses on equitable transportation systems, sustainable accessibility, and impacts of emerging technologies on urban mobility. Education includes: PhD, University of California, Los Angeles MA Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles BA Architecture, Yale University Research examines how transportation technologies affect social equity and urban form, with emphasis on pedestrian wellbeing, autonomous vehicle adoption, parking policy, and community-centered planning. Recent publications demonstrate strong focus on psychophysiological impacts of urban walking, cross-cultural mobility studies, and spatial analysis of transportation preferences. Articles show consistent themes: urban walkability (especially health impacts), autonomous vehicle integration, parking policy analysis using novel data sources, and community-centered planning approaches. Methodologically, employs mixed methods including biometric sensing, sentiment analysis of social media, geospatial modeling, and participatory design. No specific awards mentioned. Teaching covers transportation policy, land use, environmental impacts, and research methods with emphasis on ethical planning practices.

Tuuli Toivonenمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Geoinformatics
• Spatial Analytics
• Machine Learning
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Tuuli Toivonen is a Professor of Geoinformatics at the Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki. She leads the transdisciplinary Digital Geography Lab , which addresses human-scale spatial analytics for sustainable societies. She serves as Vice-Director of Geography Degree Programs (post-2022) and previously held the Director role (2020-2022). After receiving the ERC Consolidator Grant in 2022, she continues advancing open science through active memberships in HELSUS and URBARIA . PhD in Geography (University of Turku, 2006) Specialist Vocational Qualification in Leadership (2023) Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (since 2021) Her research focuses on Human-Place Interactions through accessibility/mobility lenses, combining Open Data , Machine Learning , and Spatial Analytics . Key application areas include Urban Geography , Conservation Science , and Governance Policy . Recent publications address Dynamic Cities (2018), Social Media for Conservation (2019), and Environmental Exposure During Travel (2021). Her lab produces datasets like the Helsinki Region Travel Time Matrix series (2014-2023). Scientific Awards: European Open Data Champion (2017) Open Science Price (2017) University of Helsinki Geography Award (2018) She supervises Master's thesis work and serves as Opponent for doctoral defenses across Europe. Her teaching portfolio includes Advanced Geoinformatics and Digital Geographies courses.

• Computer Vision
• Machine Learning
• Computational Photography
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Alexei A. Efros is the Howard Friesen Professor in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, affiliated with the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab. Previously, he spent a decade at CMU's Robotics Institute and held a postdoc at the University of Oxford under Andrew Zisserman. He collaborates with INRIA/École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His research focuses on self-supervised learning, generative models, and visual data mining, with applications to robotics, computational photography, and art. Education & Academic Roles: Postdoc at Oxford (with Andrew Zisserman), faculty at CMU (2005–2015), currently at UC Berkeley. Teaches courses like CS 180/280A (Computer Vision) and CS 280 (Graduate Computer Vision). Research Interests: Self-supervised learning, generative models (e.g., diffusion models, inpainting), visual commonsense, and cross-modal reasoning. His work bridges computer vision and graphics, emphasizing data-driven approaches. Recent projects include Visual Jenga, Diffusion Models as Data Mining Tools, and Prioritized Generative Replay. Grants & Labs: Leads the Efros Research Group, advised over 40 PhD students (e.g., Jun-Yan Zhu, Tinghui Zhou). Collaborates with institutions like INRIA and NVIDIA. Active in grants related to AI, vision, and robotics. Labs/Teams: BAIR Lab (UC Berkeley), former affiliations with CMU Robotics Institute and Willow Team (INRIA/ENS Paris). Current lab focuses on generative AI, 3D perception, and visual reasoning.

Mazdak Nik-Bakhtمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Construction Engineering & Management
• Infrastructure Management
• Smart Infrastructure
• +۱۰ مورد دیگر

Mazdak Nik-Bakht is an Associate Professor at Concordia University's School of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering. His work bridges construction engineering with digital innovation, focusing on smart infrastructure and sustainable development. PhD, Construction Engineering & Mgmt., University of Toronto PhD, Structural Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology MASc & BASc, Structural and Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology His research integrates Artificial Intelligence and Social Network Analysis into construction management systems. Key areas include: Smart infrastructure and urban computing Deconstruction and circular economy principles Building Information Modeling (BIM) and digital twinning Process mining in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry Decision models in construction project management Semantic computing and computational linguistics applications Recent publications show a focus on BIM analytics , urban resilience , and social media's role in infrastructure planning . Papers often combine AI and network theory to solve complex construction challenges. 2015 Outstanding paper award - Built Environment Project and Asset Management journal He teaches courses on: Big Data Analytics for Smart City Infrastructure Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Construction Building Economics Project Cost Estimating

Janet McColl-Kennedyمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Customer Experience Management
• Service Innovation
• Digital Transformation
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Professor Janet McColl-Kennedy is a leading figure in marketing and service science at The University of Queensland's Business School. She serves as Program Lead for Innovation Pathways (FaBA) and co-founded the Service Innovation Alliance (SIA) research hub, focusing on customer experience, AI, digital transformation, and sustainability. With Fellow status in the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy, she holds international recognition including Research.com's World's Best Business Scientists ranking and the Christopher Lovelock Career Contributions to the Services Discipline Award (2025). University of Queensland Business School Honorary Visiting Professor, Cambridge Service Alliance Research Collaborator, University of Cambridge Her research spans customer experience management, service ecosystems, digital transformation, and healthcare services. She has pioneered frameworks for customer value co-creation and service recovery strategies, integrating AI and behavioral science. Her 2019 paper on customer experience insights was implemented by a major B2B organization, while her work on value co-creation improved outcomes at Lutheran Community Care. Recent publications focus on AI impacts in food and beverage services, sustainable service ecosystems, and digital health interventions. She has secured over $89 million in competitive grants, including multiple ARC Linkage and Discovery Projects, and leads cross-disciplinary teams with institutions like Cambridge University and Arizona State University. 2024 - ARC College of Experts appointment 2023 - Bo Edvardsson Industry Impact in Services Award 2022 - Elected Fellow of Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia 2021 - Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher 2018 - Ranked most influential marketing academic in Australia With over 220 publications and a Google Scholar H-index of 62, she has mentored 15 PhD students and examined theses at multiple universities. Her teaching spans 30+ years across undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive programs in Australia, USA, Italy, China, and Korea, with awards for blended learning and corporate education.

Ninette Pilegaardمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Transportation Policy
• Road Charging Systems
• Bicycle Infrastructure
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Ninette Pilegaard is a Professor and serves as Deputy Head of Division and Head of Section for Transport Policy at the Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Her academic career spans multiple research domains with significant contributions to transportation policy and economics. Her research interests focus on transportation policy analysis with particular expertise in: Road charging systems and pricing mechanisms Bicycle infrastructure and safety analysis Commuting behavior and accessibility impacts Car ownership and usage patterns Relationship between transportation accessibility and labor market outcomes Dr. Pilegaard's scholarly work demonstrates a strong empirical approach combining transportation engineering with economic analysis. Her recent publications reveal a consistent focus on evidence-based policy evaluation, particularly in the Danish context. She frequently employs quasi-natural experimental methods to assess transportation policy impacts, with particular attention to road pricing, cycling infrastructure, and the economic implications of transportation systems. Her research has been supported by major funding bodies including Innovation Fund Denmark and Forskningsrådsfinansiering, and has resulted in publications in high-impact transportation journals such as Transportation Research Parts A and D, and Journal of Safety Research. As an academic supervisor, Dr. Pilegaard has served as Main Supervisor for PhD projects, including the 'Productivity and agglomeration' project. She has been actively involved in numerous research collaborations both within DTU and with external partners. Her laboratory work focuses on transportation data analysis, particularly utilizing Danish transportation datasets to examine policy impacts. She has developed expertise in analyzing hospital data for traffic safety research and has contributed to methodologies for assessing infrastructure effects on traffic accidents.

Michael Baymمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Microbial Evolutionary Genomics
• Antibiotic Resistance
• Computational Biology
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Dr. Michael Baym is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School with affiliate appointments in Microbiology and the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, and as an Associate Member of the Broad Institute. He leads the Baym Lab, which studies microbial evolutionary genomics and antibiotic resistance through a hybrid of experimental, computational, and theoretical approaches. His research focuses on: Antibiotic Resistance Evolution and practical interventions Mobile Genetic Elements (plasmids, phages, transposons) Computational Genomic Algorithms for big data analysis Synthetic Biology tools and technologies Key recent publications explore phage discovery systems , phylogenetic compression of microbial genomes, and RNA-guided gene drives in plasmids. His work is supported by multiple NIH/NIGMS and NSF grants including a MIRA award. Scientific honors include: Packard Fellowship (2018) Pew Biomedical Scholarship (2020) Sloan Research Fellowship (2020) A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award (2021) SSQBio Mentorship Award (2022) The lab actively trains PhD students and postdoctoral fellows with alumni occupying academic and industry positions globally. Current team members include researchers from interdisciplinary backgrounds working at the intersection of experiment, computation, and theory .

Xiaohui Yuمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Big Data Management and Analytics
• Database Systems
• Machine Learning
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Xiaohui Yu is a Professor and Graduate Program Director in the School of Information Technology at York University. He holds a BSc from Nanjing University, an MPhil from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a PhD from the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the intersection of data management and machine learning, including ML-based database systems, large-scale machine learning, and spatio-temporal data analysis in contexts like intelligent transportation systems and social networks. Supported by grants from NSERC and industry partners, his work has been published in top venues such as SIGMOD, VLDB, and TKDE. He serves as an Associate Editor for journals like IEEE TKDE and ACM TKDD, and actively participates in conference program committees. Education: BSc (Nanjing University), MPhil (Chinese University of Hong Kong), PhD (University of Toronto). Research Interests: Big data management, database systems, machine learning, spatio-temporal data analytics, and video query processing. Recent articles emphasize ML-driven database components, efficient video query optimization, and scalable algorithms for large-scale data. His work addresses challenges in query processing, indexing, and real-time systems. Service: Serves on editorial boards (e.g., Information Systems), and chairs/workshops (e.g., Symposium on Data Markets). Active in program committees for SIGMOD, ICDE, and other leading conferences. Advising & Grants: Directs graduate programs and leads research groups. Collaborates with industry on data marketplaces and AI model integration. No specific student names listed, but actively recruits PhD/Master’s candidates.

Esther Rolfمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Machine Learning
• Geospatial Machine Learning
• Environmental Monitoring
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Esther Rolf is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on blending methodological and applied machine learning techniques to address social and environmental challenges, emphasizing usability, data-efficiency, and fairness. Her work includes developing algorithms for environmental monitoring with satellite imagery and advancing geospatial ML systems. Her research explores the multifaceted role of data representation in machine learning, particularly how spatial distribution and data acquisition impact model fairness and efficacy. Projects include formalizing representivity in training data and tackling evaluation challenges in geospatial ML applications. Recent publications highlight her expertise in satellite-based poverty mapping, multimodal data efficiency, and geospatial foundation models. She integrates specialized architectures and domain-specific benchmarks into her work. Best Paper Award, ICML (2018) Best Paper Award, NeurIPS Workshop on AI for Social Good (2019) NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Google Research Fellowship Esther's lab at CU Boulder recruits PhD students and postdocs interested in statistical/geospatial ML and context-driven research for real-world problems. She teaches graduate courses in machine learning and geospatial ML at CU Boulder.

Elizabeth Bruchمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Sociology
• Complex Systems
• Demography
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Elizabeth Bruch is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, serving as Associate Director of the Institute for Data and AI in Society. She holds External Faculty status at the Santa Fe Institute and is affiliated with the Center for Population Studies. With a Ph.D. from UCLA and an M.S. in Statistics, her research integrates choice modeling, network science, and agent-based simulations to study individual decisions in social environments. Key areas include residential segregation, dating markets, and higher education. Education: Ph.D. and M.S. in Sociology/Statistics (UCLA), B.A. in Sociology (Reed College) Affiliations: Santa Fe Institute, Institute for Advanced Study Berlin Her work has been published in Science , PNAS , and American Journal of Sociology , earning awards like the ASA Methodology Innovation Prize and the Merton Prize. Her upcoming book Date Like a Local (Princeton, 2026) explores urban influences on romantic behavior. Bruch’s research addresses societal challenges through computational methods, including pandemic modeling during the 2020 crisis and algorithmic analysis of dating markets. She serves on Santa Fe Institute’s Science Steering Committee and collaborates across disciplines to advance complexity science.

Eric Greenمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار مدعو

• Transportation Engineering
• Highway Safety
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Eric Green is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Kentucky , affiliated with the Kentucky Transportation Center . He holds a Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in Civil Engineering from the same institution. Ph.D., Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky M.S., Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky B.S., Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky His research focuses on highway safety , spatial analysis (GIS) , crash modeling , and software development for traffic safety . Recent work includes text mining for secondary crash detection and GPS-based horizontal curve analysis. Publications highlight trends in crash analysis , Highway Safety Manual methodologies , and data integration for asset management . Key subfields include GIS applications, safety modeling, and automated regression techniques.

• System Informatics
• Big Data Analytics
• Data Fusion
• +۹ مورد دیگر

Dr. Kaibo Liu is the Grainger STAR Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and serves as Associate Director of the UW-Madison IoT Systems Research Center. He earned his B.S. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2009), and M.S. and Ph.D. from Georgia Tech (2011/2013). His research focuses on system informatics, big data analytics, and data fusion for process modeling, monitoring, and decision-making. He has been funded by NSF, ONR, DOE, and industry partners. Notable awards include the 2024 Hromi Medal (ASQ), 2021 IISE Technical Innovation Award, and multiple early-career recognitions. Recent work emphasizes real-time cyber-physical security, reinforcement learning for data streams, and Bayesian methods for prognosis. He edits IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and IISE Transactions on Data Science.

• Geohazards
• Landslides
• Debris flows
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Scott McDougall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He specializes in geohazards, particularly landslides and related risks, with a focus on improving risk assessment and mitigation strategies. His work integrates field data, statistical analysis, numerical modeling, and laboratory experiments to understand landslide dynamics. Education: PhD in Geological Engineering, UBC (2006) BASc in Civil Engineering, University of Toronto (1998) Research Interests: Landslide mobility and runout modeling Tailings dam breaches and their impacts Risk evaluation frameworks for geohazards Shoreline erosion and landslide-generated waves Applications of machine learning in hazard prediction Key Contributions: Development of the UBC Geohazards Research Team to advance landslide risk reduction Leadership in the CanBreach project to improve tailings dam breach analysis Pioneering probabilistic runout prediction models for rock avalanches and debris flows Awards: Engineering Geology Best Paper Award 2024 CDA Published Paper Award Advising & Grants: Supervised over 15 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows Active industry collaborations with mining and engineering firms Funded by NSERC, Mitacs, and industry partnerships Labs & Teams: UBC Geohazards Research Team CanBreach Collaborative Research and Development Project

• Resources Engineering
• Geology
• Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
• +۹ مورد دیگر

Ji-Quan Shi is a Research Fellow in the Department of Earth Science & Engineering at Imperial College London's Faculty of Engineering. His affiliations include the Energy Futures Lab, Minerals, Energy and Environmental Engineering, and Petroleum Geoscience and Engineering. His research focuses on geomechanical and coupled THM (thermo-hydro-mechanical) modeling for CO2 storage, geothermal energy systems, and mining-induced seismicity. Key interests include induced seismicity risk assessment, reservoir simulation, and fracture mechanics in subsurface energy systems. Education background not explicitly stated in text, but his expertise spans geoscience, civil engineering, and environmental systems. Research areas emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to subsurface energy challenges, including carbon capture and storage (CCS), geothermal reservoir management, and coal mining hazards. His work combines field observations, numerical modeling, and laboratory experiments to address challenges like CO2 plume tracking, fault activation mechanisms, and microseismic event forecasting. Recent studies focus on Iceland's geothermal fields (Hellisheiði) and North African CO2 storage sites (In Salah). He has pioneered methods for integrating microseismic data with reservoir models to improve safety and efficiency in subsurface operations. Notable contributions include probabilistic frameworks for hazardous microseismicity prediction in coal mines and coupled modeling of thermal effects on induced seismicity. His research also explores innovative monitoring technologies like distributed fiber optic sensing for CO2 plume tracking.